On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 12:49 PM, Andrew Leech <coronasensei at gmail.com>wrote:
> On 28/10/12 3:37 PM, Andrew Leech wrote:
>>> On 28/10/12 8:09 AM, Tim Phipps wrote:
>>>>> Quoting Andrew Leech <coronasensei at gmail.com>:
>>>>>>> On 27/10/12 9:24 PM, Mark Greenwood wrote:
>>>>>>>>> On 27 Oct 2012, at 07:56, Andrew Leech wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>> File "./mausc-wrapper", line 18, in runjob
>>>>>> db = MythDB()
>>>>>> <deleted>
>>>>>> as my libmyth-python (2:0.25.2+fixes.20121002.**
>>>>>> 139bd59-0ubuntu0mythbuntu1)
>>>>>>>>>>> I'm using mythbuntu 12.04.1, which has python 2.7.3. I'm no python
>>>>>>>>>>>> I don't think that will help. I'm on crufty old Debian stable and it has
>>> python version 2.6.6. The MythDB() call is where the failure is rooted. Can
>>> you run mythpython and type 'db=MythDB()' into it?
>>>>>> Cheers,
>>> Tim.
>>>>> Hi Tim,
>> Yeah you're right, it's quite a reproducible failure. I had to type:
>> >>> from MythTV import MythDB
>> before db=MythDB() would resolve but that does trigger the same failure.
>> Looks to me like something is out of whack with my mythtv
>> library/bindings, probably updating mythtv and ensuring all the packages
>> are up to date would help before updating the entire system.
>> I'm always a little reticent about doing updates to mythtv, I want to be
>> sure I have a bit of spare time in case I have new problems to fix. I might
>> have to wait a bit, it's far too nice a day outside today to dive into a
>> myth update just now! I'll try that later.
>>>> Thanks,
>> Andrew
>>> Follow up, it had nothing to do with python problems, it turns out it's
> because I had an empty ~/.mythtv/config.xml . I did have an
> /etc/mythtv/config.xml but apparently that's no use.
> So score one for nasty cryptic error messages!
>
I believe your personal one is best dealt with as a link to the system wide
one.
>> I'll follow up later with some commercial flagging results.
> Cheers,
>> Andrew
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